Rewriting the American Soul Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination

Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna Thiemann connects cutting edge trauma

Info autore

Anna Thiemann is assistant professor of English at the University of Muenster, Germany.

Riassunto

Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna Thiemann connects cutting edge trauma

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anna Thiemann, Thiemann Anna, Anna (University of Munster) Thiemann
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche non cliniche; Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9780367886875
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88687-5
• Numero di pagine: 210
• Serie: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Categorie: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, MEDICAL / Mental Health, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, MEDICAL / Neuroscience, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Psychiatry, Trauma & shock, Trauma and shock, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, post-9, collective memory studies, psychoanalytic criticism, cultural trauma analysis, 11 literature, neurocognitive theory, neuronovel research, trauma theory in contemporary fiction